Craig Calhoun, ASU University Professor of Social Sciences, former director and president of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), author of many books including the forthcoming "Degenerations of Democracy"

Pardis Mahdavi, Dean of Social Sciences, ASU, author of multiple books including "Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives" and Mi-Ai Parrish, Sue Clark-Johnson Professor in Media Innovation and Leadership, ASU and former President and Publisher of USA Today Network Arizona.

Co-sponsored with the ASU Global Human Rights Hub and Zócalo Public Square.

Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, author of multiple books, including "Cool War: The Future of Global Competition" and "Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It".

Theodore R. Johnson, Senior Fellow, Director of the Fellows Program, Brennan Center for Justice, former National Fellow at New America, retired Commander in the United States Navy, author of forthcoming "When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America"  

Yi-Ling Liu, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Economist, The New Yorker, and elsewhere

Col. (ret) Isaiah Wilson, President, Joint Special Operations University, decorated combat veteran with tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and author of "Thinking beyond War: Civil Military Relations and Why America Fails to Win the Peace"

David Rohde is an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, executive editor for news at The New Yorker, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of four books, including, "In Deep: The FBI, the CIA and the Truth about America’s Deep State".

Trevor Aaronson is an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America and an investigative journalist for The Intercept, executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and author of "The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism".

Colonel Frank Stanco is the chief of staff of the Army Senior Fellow at New America and an officer with over 25 years in active duty, including serving at the strategic, operational and tactical-level in Europe, South Korea, Central America, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Suzy Hansen is an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize.